The cantina attracts a range of exotic alien species, although droids are not permitted to enter the bartender orders them to leave, saying "We don't serve their kind in here". Strong drink is on sale at the bar and there are frequent outbreaks of violence among the clientele. ![]() Upon arrival, Luke and Obi-Wan enter the cantina, a dimly-lit tavern patronised by visiting starship pilots. Obi-Wan warns Luke that the spaceport may be dangerous. The Mos Eisley scenes occur early in Star Wars, when the young hero Luke Skywalker and his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi travel to the spaceport in Luke's landspeeder in search of a pilot, accompanied by the droids, C-3PO and R2-D2. Spacecraft land at docking bays dotted across the city. ![]() The lawless spaceport attracts criminals, smugglers and fugitives. It is depicted as a busy, bustling port city situated in a desert plain, populated with transients of all species. Mos Eisley made its first appearance in the original 1977 film, Star Wars. Mos Eisley is the ‘tragic offspring’ of corruption and neglect.Filming location in Ajim, Tunisia for the Mos Eisley Cantina for Star Wars (1977) ![]() So, it’s extremely likely to me that a place like Mos Eisley would exist given all that was wrong with a federation of planets governed by a power-thirsty despot, that gave way to an Outer Rim planet controlled by the Hutts. Han Solo and Chewbacca were drug smugglers “trying to avoid any Imperial entanglements” who often docked at the Mos Eisley Spaceport. Look at how many bounty hunters, mercenaries, hired assassins, and contraband smugglers gravitated to the Mos Eisley Spaceport and Jabba’s Palace. So basically, there was no ‘potent authority’ to ensure peace, justice, or order anywhere on Tatooine, least of all within the Mos Eisley Spaceport. By 0 BBY, the Jedi had long been ‘vilified’, or forgotten, and one could hardly count on the Rebellion to make up for the Jedi’s absence since the Rebellion was outnumbered by Imperial forces 100-to-1. Because of the ‘strangle hold’ that the Empire put on the economy of the universe, many beings within it were ‘dirt poor’ and drawn to crime that would go ‘mostly undetected’ on the remote planet of Tatooine. There’s bound to be at least ‘one’ wretched hive of scum and villainy there, if not ten, and go figure that the Mos Eisley Spaceport is not far from where Jabba the Hutt lives and conducts most of his illegal business. Tatooine is an ‘Outer Rim’ planet, governed by vile gangsters - the Hutts. I think Obi-Wan's meaning rings true in general. Also he's pretty picky about who he lets live, so it's not a place more scum and villainy can just show up and congregate. To start, Jabba is a very wealthy gangster, and so even his miserable underlings are at least living in a classy palace. Jabba's Palace is probably the best candidate for a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, so it's the hardest to pick that one apart. ![]() (I mean yeah, the dark side is technically evil, but.) Utapau and Mustafar may have been battlefields, but who's to say who's right and who's wrong? There are just opposing sides. The Galactic Senate may have been full of villains, but they were also esteemed diplomats. The Chancellor's office is just one person's office. Dooku was building an army, not a gang of thugs. Let's compare Mos Eisley to the examples you gave to speculate why they may not count.
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